This article reports on research in three secondary schools England where students were engaged deliberative discussion of controversial issues. The teaching resources used illustrated rights-based dilemmas and the data analysis focused nature talk types knowledge drew upon to inform their discussions. shares four insights: (i) there is a need be more explicit about what constitutes human right...

This essay is about a special kind of social networks called ego networks. Like other networks, they are made up of social units persons, groups or organizations and social relations like marriage or friendship that Iink pairs of units into some sort of overall patterned structure. Ego networks, however, are special in that they are built around a particular social unit designated a!, ego. To u...

©FFPRHC J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2007: 33(3) Background In this Commentary we review recent research about the mechanism of action of levonorgestrel emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs) and the population impact of emergency contraception (EC), and we examine the downside of making ECPs available directly from a pharmacist or other non-specialist provider without a prescription. We argue ...